Author Archive

  Interview with Su-young Huh, director of Incomplete Woman What a highly unusual premise. Are any parts autobiographical? I started to write this story because of a sense of shame I felt when making artwork. I knew that I should keep trying hard (following the example of all the outstanding, skilled people I have met) but I found myself unable to do so, and […]

  Interview with Sonja Feldmeier, director of The Peepul Tree Can you tell us more about how you came across the felling of this tree? What drove you to make a film about it? All this happened in 2011 in Haridwar, a city in northern India. I encountered this spectacular tree felling on my way to the Himalayas. I was shocked and equally fascinated […]

  Interview with Sami Tlili, director of Hors-jeu flagrant [Obvious Offside] Do you have a particular interest in football? In your opinion, what place does football have in Tunisia? I am both a big fan of football as well as a critic of its excesses (the business of football, the political exploitation of football, the fanaticism of both the fans and the major actors […]

  Interview with Sameh Alaa, director of I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face What did you want to explore in this story? The man’s grief? The lost relationship? Both. What made you come up with the idea of him dressing “as a woman”? I just wanted him to hide in order to see her for the last time – this type of costume […]

  Interview with Zhannat Alshanova, director of History of Civilization What would you say are Indira’s reasons for leaving? I think she felt stuck, but couldn’t figure out the actual problem. So she thought it could be a good idea to change everything – her job, her apartment and her country. Would you say there is a lack of opportunities or career development in […]

  Interview with María Cristina Pérez González, director of Todo es Culpa de la Sal [It’s All the Salt’s Fault] Can you explain to us your choice of title? The title comes from a quotidian family phrase when asked for who is to blame when something goes wrong; it also refers to the idea of something always present on the family’s table, and at […]

  Interview with Eloy Domínguez Serén, director of Os Corpos [The Bodies] Can you explain the choice of title? This short film is in a way a celebration of the encounter of the bodies, the flesh, seen from a time when this type of encounter is (temporarily) no longer allowed. They are bodies in ecstasy, sweaty, bewitched, raging, riotous… Thousands of people huddle, jump […]

  Interview with Max Barron, director of Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee The short is codirected with Michael Woodward. How did that collaboration come about? We have been working together for many years now – mainly in advertising. This is our first short film. People often think it’s strange for the director to not be one person, but we actually find it works […]

  Interview with Shih Han Tsao, director of Neko and Flies  Can you explain the choice of title? When I first came to the fishing harbor to do the research to write a script, I thought of the novel Lord of the Flies. It is because the port has its own social norms and the pattern people get along with each other, also the conflict […]

  Interview with Kim Tran, director of Zoe and Hanh Obvious question. How much of this film is autobiographical? It’s not really autobiographical, but it was inspired by my upbringing and how I was never given the sex talk by my parents. I wanted to explore the ramifications of that through an aging mother and her grown up daughter, specifically through the lens (and […]